The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-13
Weekly News Summary.


an LID from Dartmouth.
THE Westinghouse belonging to c. b.
Cross of Windsor was burned the 9TH.
PATRICK MCCORMICK was killed by the
fall of a scale of marble in a Rutland quarry.
THE summer opera company that was to
open in Burlington has cancelled its engage
ment.
THOMAS PRYoR's house at st. Adams was
burned July 9TH. Loss $1,000 insured for
$500.
DIR. SAMUEL NICHOLS, prominent physi-
clan of Bellows Falls, died last Friday of
paralysis.
JOHN @. ADAMS, aged sixty-three, of Ches-
ter, was killed by being thrown from load
of hay in the field.
MORRIS HIGGINS of Brattleboro had por-
ton of his instep blown off by the prema-
ture discharge of cannon.
THE dwelling, outbuildings and barn of
Wallace w. Burk in Hartland were de-
stroyed by fire the other evening.
PROBABLY 5000 people from the surround
ing towns attended Barnums great exhibit
ton at Brattleboro last Wednesday.
AT Bellows Falls an ice team ran away,
throwing the driver, John Roy, under the
team and injuring him perhaps fatally.
Mrs. FRANCIS A. STIcKNEY has been ap-
pointed postmstress at Brookline and c. r.
Brown postmaster at South Wardsboro.
ALFRED COMBS house in Montgomery
with most of its contents, was burned last
week. Cause, sparks from the chimney.
CHARLES, the only son of Warren Church
of Chester, committed suicide by shooting
through the head with a revolver the 9TH.
PRINCIPAL CoNANT and his assistants,
Miss Barker and Miss Camp, of the st.
Adams high school have been engaged for
another year
RECENT patents to Vermonters: William
II. Sherman, Hartland, pencil clasp; George
G. Smith, st. Adams, fastening for hinged
and sliding doors.
j. b. BowDITcH, formerly of the Richford
Sentinel and st. Adams Messenger, has been
appointed commissioner of industrial statis-
tics in Rhode Island
CHARLES WEIRs was run over and killed
near East Barnet by an express-train on the
Passumpsc railroad July 3. a broken jug
was found by his side.
THE third annual series of the Vermont
Universalsts' grove meetings will open at
Queen City Park Tuesday, August 9, and
close Sunday, August IA.
GEORGE E. EATON, formerly proprietor of
the North star at Danvile but lately of the
Troy IN. " Press, has been sorely afflicted
by the death of his wife, of heart disease,
which occurred on Friday
BETWEEN East Concord and Miles Pond,
the other day, lightning took "a trip along
the telegraph wire, and as a result thirty
seven telegraph-poles were thrown down,
many being split into kindling-wood.
The Soldiers Home in Bennington will
be formally dedicated August II or II. A
meeting of the trustees will be held on that
occasion, at which will come up for consider
alton the erection of an additional building.
WILLIAM BARRETT of Fairfax, while under
taking to examine the teeth of one of the
Mssouri-bred " horses the other day, had
his thumb bitten off by the animal and at
last accounts was in a critical condition
from blood-poisoning.
II. c. FISK, Esq, of Morrisville, who has
just returned from visit to the reform
school, reports everything as in a very
satisfactory condition. There are now
seventy-four boys and fourteen girls con-
fined in the institution.
ALBERT G.. HATCH, a native of Vermont
and for many years the postmaster at Wind
sor, died in Chicago July 7. He was re-
spected by large circle of friends in
Vermont. His remains were brought to
Windsor for interment.
THE most terrific thunderstorm of the
season prevailed in st. Adams the 9th. The
streets were flooded and the water set back
from the sewers, delugng the cellars to a
considerable extent. Rain fell in torrents
for three-quarters OF an hour.
EDWIN COPELAND of Mt. Holly, a one
armed veteran, while going to Ludlow to
attend the celebration and walking beside
a moving train, slipped and fell 80 that his
other arm went under the car-wheels, crush
ing it so it had to be taken off at the wrist
TEN thousand cups of coffee were con-
sumed at the recent reunion of veterans at
Fair Haven with five bushels of doughnuts,
a barrel of hard-tack, whole cheese and
biscuits and butter by the CARLOAD. Twenty
five hundred people were fed during the day
AN insane woman, giving the name of
Maggie Bingham and claiming to hail from
Middlebury, was arrested at the Saratoga
depot where she was tiourishing a revolver
Upon being locked up she attempted suicide
by suffocation, and failing in this tried to
escape. She was finally confined in a cell.
HOWARD gibson fell from the top of the
Champion Evaporator Company's building
at Richford, Saturday, dropped twelve feet
struck ON the roof OF a lumber-shed, slid
the Missisquoi river, where the water is
but eighteen inches deep, and escaped with
out injury.
BASEBALL: The second game in the newly
formed Northeastern League was played IN
St. Adams the 18th, between the Rutano
and st. Adams mines, and was won by the
latter six to two. - The second game
between the Burlington and Rutland mines
at Rutland on Friday, resulted in favor o
the Rutlands by score of eight to three.
In the Addison county court Frank Morse
man, convicted of manslaughter in killing
Charles G. Hinckley at Salisbury Angus
81 last was sentenced to fifteen years in tn,
state prison, and James w Mitchell, nov
of Lowell, Mass, pleaded guilty of burglari2
ing the saloon of John w. Jackson in Wen
gennes September 3, 1885, and was fine
500 and costs.
LAMBERT HASTINGS died in st. Johnsbur
last week, aged eighty years. He was i
early life engaged in the cattle business
For fifty years he drove cattle to Brighto
and Cambridge markets, at which places h
was Familiarity known as Uncle Lambert.
He was highly esteemed as a business maI
Probably no man in New England markete
as many cattle as he.
DURING the heavy storms of July I'll
large and nearly new barn of Francis Ryal
thrifty and prosperous farmer in Fairfield
was struck by lightning and wholly col
sumed, together with fifty tons of hay, OF
hundred bushels of grain, one calf, tw
sleighs, a mowng-machine, harrow, a &c
buggy and an ox-cart. Loss $4,000; insure
for $1,000 in the Vermont Mutual. I'll
corn barn of James NJ. Farr in the san
town was also struck by lightning and d
molished. Two cows belonging to Mr.
Cox in Fairfield were hit by the electr
fluid and killed. Lightning struck in tv
or three places in St. Adams.
For some time war has been brewing
campamong the saloon-keepers at Winoosl
owing to jealousy, and complaints hay
been freely signed by the friends of the I
spective factions for raids on the premis
OF their rivals. This has been going on T
and oh pf faa1i ,